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Archive for June, 2012

W. Verne Athanas was a writer of western fiction. The collection includes Athanas’ personal and professional correspondence, source and idea notes, miscellaneous papers, teleplays, manuscripts, and Western Writers of America correspondence and documents.

William E. Walsh (1903-1975) was an attorney who served as a senator in the Oregon legislature (Republican) from the 8th district, 1941-1952, and as president of the state Senate from 1949-1950. The collection contains correspondence and files related to Oregon political campaigns, including the campaigns of Julius L. Meier, Mark Hatfield and Wayne L. Morse, correspondence, documents and bills, committee and commission records, and Columbia Valley Authority files.

Dale Van Every (1896-1976) was a historical novelist, script and playwright, and film producer. The collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, reviews, biographical information, research notebooks, and scrapbooks.

Russell Bankson (1889-1976) was a newspaperman and fiction writer in Spokane, WA. Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, publicity and press clippings, biographical data, mementoes, and manuscripts written by others.

John T. Flynn (October 25, 1882-April 13, 1964) was an American journalist and political writer. The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, scripts of radio broadcasts and other addresses, and reference files that reflect Flynn’s career as a writer and his interests in business, economics, politics.

Tee A. Corinne (1943- ) is a photographer, artist, writer, and lesbian activist. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, artwork, photographs, artifacts, and other documents that reflect Corinne’s life and work.

Collection comprises the papers of Edward A. Schaper, an American physician who specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and directed tuberculosis sanatoriums. Papers include autobiographical writings; journals and diaries; travel articles, stories and essays on tuberculosis and sanitariums; correspondence; clippings and photographs; and sound recordings, all circa 1900 to 1964. Schaper was a radio and sound recording enthusiast and he recorded radio commentaries, music recitals, and speeches by presidents and politicians, as well as his own commentaries, telephone calls and letters, from the 1930s to the 1940s.

Margaret Frances “Peg” Lynch (1916- ) is a writer for radio and television, known in particular for her “Ethel and Albert” radio and television program that aired in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The collection includes correspondence, scripts for radio and television, audiotapes, kinescopes, and photographs.